THE CREATURE FROM THE BLACK LAGOON

Universal Classic Monsters: Complete 30-Film Collection Coming To DVD on Sept. 2

Since the era of silent films, Universal Pictures has earned a reputation as the home of the monster movie, producing landmark films that defined the horror genre for all time.

Now for the first time ever, all 30 Universal Classic Monster films will be available together on DVD in the Universal Classic Monsters: Complete 30-Film Collection, available on September 2, 2014.

Universal Classic Monsters: Complete 30-Film Collection showcases every original film featuring Hollywood’s most iconic monsters, including Dracula, Frankenstein, The Mummy, The Invisible Man, The Bride of Frankenstein, The Wolf Man, The Phantom of the Opera and The Creature from the Black Lagoon.

Starring legendary actors Bela Lugosi, Boris Karloff, Lon Chaney, Jr., Claude Rains and Elsa Lanchester in the roles they made famous, these films set the standard for decades to come with revolutionary makeup, mind-blowing cinematography and groundbreaking special effects. Featuring hours of revealing bonus features, Universal Classic Monsters: Complete 30-Film Collection brings home classic thrills and chills with some of the most unforgettable characters ever filmed.

With hours of bonus features as well as a 48-page book featuring behind-the-scenes photographs, original posters, rare correspondence and more to enhance the viewing experience, Universal Classic Monsters: Complete 30-Film Collection includes:

Dracula (1931)		Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man (1943)
Frankenstein (1931)		Phantom of the Opera (1943)
The Mummy (1932)		Son of Dracula (1943)
The Invisible Man (1933)		The Invisible Man’s Revenge (1944)
The Bride of Frankenstein (1935)		The Mummy’s Ghost (1944)
Werewolf of London (1935)		House of Frankenstein (1944)
Dracula’s Daughter (1936)		The Mummy’s Curse (1944)
Son of Frankenstein (1939)		House of Dracula (1945)
The Invisible Man Returns (1940)		She-Wolf of London (1946)
The Mummy’s Hand (1940)		Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948)
The Invisible Woman (1940)		Abbott and Costello Meet the Invisible Man (1951)
The Wolf Man (1941)		Creature from the Black Lagoon (1954)
The Ghost of Frankenstein (1942)		Revenge of the Creature (1955)
Invisible Agent (1942)		Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy (1955)
The Mummy’s Tomb (1942)		The Creature Walks Among Us (1956)

BONUS FEATURES:

Behind the Scenes Documentaries
The 1931 Spanish Version of Dracula
Bela Lugosi, Boris Karloff, Lon Chaney Jr. and Jack Pierce Featurettes
13 Expert Feature Commentaries
Archival Footage
Production Photographs
Theatrical Trailers

CREATURE FROM THE BLACK LAGOON Star Julie Adams Coming to the Wildey Theater Near St. Louis

She’ll always be best known as Kay Lawrence, the beauty that the Gillman falls in love with the moment he spies her swimming above him in THE CREATURE FROM THE BLACK LAGOON (1954). Mimicking her movements in the water, the Creature performs a lustful underwater mating dance – he’s directly beneath her but she’s unaware of his amorous overtures in the murky depths of the river. It’s a desire most men (and monster kids) could relate to and Julie Adams is the actress who will always be fondly remembered as the ‘girl in the white one-piece’. Now lucky St. Louis movie fans will have the opportunity to meet Ms Adams when she attends a screening of THE CREATURE FROM THE BLACK LAGOON this Thursday, October 17^th at the Wildey Theater in Edwardsville, IL (just outside St. Louis). They’re calling the event ‘Creatures, Cupcakes and Cocktails’ because guests will also have an opportunity to purchase cupcakes and cocktails the night of the screening.

October 17th is Julie Adam’s 87^th Birthday so be sure to wish her the best on her special day. She will be selling and signing copies of her book The Lucky Southern Star: Reflections from the Black Lagoon, which she wrote with her son Mitch Danton.

Read my interview with Julie Adams from March of 2012 HERE

https://www.wearemoviegeeks.com/2012/03/wamg-interview-julie-adams-star-of-creature-from-the-black-lagoon/

The event kicks off at 6:15 p.m. at the Wildey and tickets are $10 each.

The Wildey Theatre is located at 252 North Main Street in Edwardsville, Illinois 62025

Tickets can be purchased, and more information can be found, online at www.WildeyTheatre.com.

For more information on this or other Friends of the Wildey events, contact Rich Walker at 650-3158 or the Wildey at 307-1758.

Here I am with Julie Adams at the Rondo Awards Ceremony in 2012

THE CREATURE FROM THE BLACK LAGOON Screening at Schlafly Bottleworks Next Thursday

“Not since the beginning of time has the world beheld terror like this!”

Gills, webbed hands, claws, an ugly face only a mother could love, and a body full of scales, THE CREATURE FROM THE BLACK LAGOON from 1954 is easily the greatest man-in-a-monster-suit movie ever made. The celebrated sequence where the Gill Man is swimming along below white one-piece-wearing star Julie Adams is a sequence of beauty, grace, menace and sensuousness unrivalled by anything on screen before or since.

Check out my interview with Julie Adams HERE

https://www.wearemoviegeeks.com/2012/03/wamg-interview-julie-adams-star-of-creature-from-the-black-lagoon/#comments

THE CREATURE FROM THE BLACK LAGOON may be 59 years old, but it still holds up as a very entertaining film, with plenty of thrills and chills of the old school kind. Nothing blows up and no-one cusses. If it was made today, all you’d hear would be “I’ll kill that muthaf***ing fish-stink bastard!” and every now and then someone would fire a nuclear armed spear gun or something similarly over the top…….

But it wasn’t made today. It was made in 1954 and next week, you’ll have the chance to see THE CREATURE FROM THE BLACK LAGOON on a big screen and help raise money for a good cause as part of the “Culture Shock’ films series.

The screening is at 7pm Thursday, May 1^st. The location is Schlafly Bottleworks – 7260 Southwest Ave St Louis, MO 63143. Doors open at 6:30pm.

$6 suggested for the screening. A yummy variety of food from Schlafly’s kitchen is available as are plenty of pints of their famous home-brewed suds. Jimmie the bartender will be on hand to take care of you.

“Culture Shock” is the name of a film series here in St. Louis that is the cornerstone project of a social enterprise that is an ongoing source of support for Helping Kids Together (http://www.helpingkidstogether.com/) a St. Louis based social enterprise dedicated to building cultural diversity and social awareness among young people through the arts and active living.

The films featured for “Culture Shock” demonstrate an artistic representation of culture shock materialized through mixed genre and budgets spanning music, film and theater. Through ‘A Film Series’ working relationship with Schlafly Bottleworks, they seek to provide film lovers with an offbeat mix of dinner and a movie opportunities.

We hope to see everyone next Thursday night!

And since I’m always looking for an excuse to show off my collection of Creature from the Black Lagoon toys:

And check out the THE CREATURE FROM THE BLACK LAGOON trailer:

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